Archive for 'Unix'
As the SCO rolls
Reality, as good writers know, is sometimes stranger than fiction. SCO’s recent performance in the U.S. District Court in Utah is a perfect example. With years to prepare, SCO executives made some remarkable statements in their attempt to show that SCO, not Novell, owns Unix’s copyright.
While this case is not about SCO’s claims that IBM [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Linux, Novell, Open Source, Operating System, SCO, Sun, Unix.
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OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux a real challenge.
Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I’m inclined to doubt it simply because OpenSolaris has failed to develop [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Novell, Open Source, Operating System, SCO, Sun, Unix.
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SCO gets it Day in Court
Years into its legal wars against Linux, SCO gets another chance to go to court on April 28th. However, the case at hand, one last attempt to show that it, and not Novell, owns Unix’s copyright isn’t the case, SCO wanted. Instead of threatening the legality of Linux, this four-day trial will only determine whether [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Linux, Novell, SCO, Unix.
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What`s Behind the SCO Buyout
If I had a $100 million lying around, I really think I could find a better investment for my money than buying SCO. I could invest in, say, high-quality stocks, bonds, gold, New Orleans real estate, collectable Pez containers or, just the other day, I got this interesting investment opportunity from someone whose wealthy husband [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Microsoft, Novell, SCO, Unix.
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SCO’s KIA, but what about the rest of the troopers?
When Judge Kimball ruled against SCO in favor of Novel and said that Novell owned Unix’s IP (intellectual property), that was the end of SCO. So now, SCO’s legal cases are dead — but what about its friends and partners?
I’ve said since the beginning that there was next to nothing to SCO’s claims that Unix [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Business, Legal, Linux, Microsoft, SCO, Sun, Unix.
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